Recipe: Bubble-Up Enchilada Casserole

Wedding countdown on = calorie count ON. 

Last night I made the simplest, most filling, most delicious dinner... and it was only around 300 calories a serving.  
Dan proclaimed it, "like homemade Chef Boyardee."

I attempted some iPhone pics, but they didn't look so good. So, I'll just use this one from Pinterest:

I'm not kidding. Go make this tonight. 

Recipe Makeover: Bubble Up Enchilada Casserole from Emily Bites

Source: adapted from multiple message board posts on weightwatchers.com

Ingredients:
1 ¼ lbs extra lean ground turkey 
1 (10 oz) can enchilada sauce 
1 (8 oz) can tomato sauce 
1 (15 oz) can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 (7.5 oz) can refrigerator biscuits, cut into quarters 
1 cup shredded low fat Mexican Cheese (I used Weight Watchers brand)

1/4 cup chopped green onion 

Directions:
1.    Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly mist a 9 x 13 baking dish with cooking spray and set aside.
2.    Brown turkey in a large skillet or sauté pan. 
3.    Add the enchilada sauce, tomato sauce and black beans and stir to combine. Stir the biscuit pieces into the meat mixture. 
4.    Transfer the entire mixture to the prepared baking dish and spread out evenly. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and sprinkle the cheese on top. Bake an additional 10 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes before serving. 

Yields 6 servings. Weight Watchers Points Plus: 7 per serving (P+ calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
Nutrition Information per serving from myfitnesspal.com: 307 calories, 34 g carbs, 6 g fat, 32 g protein, 4 g fiber

Drinking this: 

Listening to this: 

Weekend Recap - Eureka Springs, AR

This past weekend, we drove down to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. 

We stayed in a treehouse. 

We ate barbeque. 

We did some stand-up paddle boarding.

We fed buffalo. 

Oak Crest Cottages and Treehouses 

Literally the cutest place I've ever stayed. Each cottage was themed for a different city-- we had the "Manhattan" room. 

In the "notes" section of the reservation page, I mentioned that it was our anniversary. They put up a sweet little sign for us! 

morning coffee, among the trees.

Eureka Springs Volkswagon Festival and Tourcade happened to be this weekend. So fun to see hundreds of VW's cruising around town!

The quintessential Victorian mountain village. 

Beaver Lake 

Dan got the 'merica board. obviously. 

Saturday night, before dinner...

at Ermilios

we drank well. 

 

 Sunday, we grabbed lunch at a little bistro.

 I was clearly in my element.

and Dan became a cat person. 

smile in the age of worry.

Mary from the blog Schmidt Talk wrote a post entitled "25 Things I Want Myself to Know at 25." 

I adore this. 

Here are a few of my favorite tid-bits on her list: 

7. "Speaking of adventure, keep doing it. Travel the world as often as money and time will allow because you know how invaluable those experiences are but don’t forget about the smaller adventures. Those weekend getaways with your best friends, the 3 days spent caravanning around the state to help your brother and sister-in-law move into a new house, or the afternoons spent in a retirement community with your parents. Those experiences are just as invaluable and they fill your soul."  

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9. "In fact, make time for everyone in your life. You have a lot of people in your life who you love and who love you, be grateful. Don’t ever become one of those people who just gets too “busy.” Make time for the walk in the park, the cup of coffee, the glass of wine, the phone conversation. Make time."    

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10. "Posture. Work on that. That curve in your back is going to be a lot more painful when you’re 70."     

via Google 

22. "Read more books. Blogs are great. Online media is great. But don’t forget to close your computer every once and awhile and pick up a real book or a newspaper."          

24. "Always spend time in nature. Work in the garden and get dirt in your nails. Look up at the redwoods and know that you will never see the top. Stand at the edge of the ocean and wonder what’s beyond the horizon. Take it all in."

Friday Again.

This little fluff-butt got to hang with a jack russell/corgi mix the other weekend!

#besties

Take me to Bali.

Ubud Hanging Gardens Villas and Suites

46 days...

I have to see it. The whole world.

"Forgiveness is a reflection of loving yourself enough to move on."

It'S FRiDaY!

Me, at work today: 

we ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other. 

-ernest hemingway

Fall is around the corner... (or at least Pinterest says it is)

"Déjeuner du matin" de Jacques Prévert

Il a mis le café
Dans la tasse
Il a mis le lait
Dans la tasse de café 
Il a mis le sucre
Dans le café au lait
Avec la petite cuiller
Il a tourné 
Il a bu le café au lait
Et il a reposé la tasse
Sans me parler

Il a allumé 
Une cigarette
Il a fait des ronds
Avec la fumée
Il a mis les cendres
Dans le cendrier
Sans me parler
Sans me regarder

Il s'est levé 
Il a mis
Son chapeau sur sa tête
Il a mis son manteau de pluie
Parce qu'il pleuvait
Et il est parti
Sous la pluie
Sans une parole
Sans me regarder

Et moi j'ai pris
Ma tête dans ma main
Et j'ai pleuré.

Spice-Rubbed Fish with Lemony Rice

One of my saving graces in Tulsa is Whole Foods. They have the absolute freshest fish and meats. I am constantly inspired to spend way too much on groceries and then spend way too much time cooking dinner. 

This particular recipe had been sitting all lonely on a Pinterest board of mine, just waiting to be attempted. I was looking for something light and fresh-tasting, but packed with flavor. This was definitely it. And a bonus: it's a one-pot meal. 

So easy. So delicious. 

Convinced that anything served on an Anthropologie plate automatically looks fancy.

 A little Key Lime pie for dessert. (Not homemade. I'm not that cool.)

Spice-Rubbed Fish with Lemony Rice

Adapted from [the one and only] Martha:

• 
  
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 small yellow onion, diced small
• 2-3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
• 1 cup basmati rice
• 2 cups low-sodium chicken broth
• 1 lemon- 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest, plus 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 medium zucchini, halved lengthwise and cut into 1-inch pieces
• Coarse salt and ground pepper
• 1 pound cod or other firm white-fleshed fish, cut into 4 fillets
• 
  
• Spice rub (I basically coated the top of the filets with equal parts, to taste): 
• Coriander
• Paprika (Hungarian if you're feeling bold)
• Ginger (ground)
• Cumin
• Salt 
• Pepper 
• 
  

In a medium saucepan, heat butter over medium. Add onion and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is soft, 4 minutes. Stir in rice and cook 1 minute. Stir in lemon zest and juice, broth, and zucchini and season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil over medium-high. Reduce to a simmer, cover, and cook 13 minutes. Sprinkle spice mix over fish. Arrange fish snugly in a single layer, spice side up, on top of rice, cover, and cook until rice is tender and fish is opaque throughout, 5 to 7 minutes. Serve with lemon wedges. 

Flurrrfffy.

This is seriously cool.

http://www.upworthy.com/omg-best-use-of-a-billboard-i-have-ever-seen?c=ufb1

I love the website Upworthy.com.  It always makes my day a little better.

#Friday #Derp

Yoga with the sister.

We found a stowaway in our backseat from last weekend's road trip back to IL. 

She came for a little visit to Tulsa!